General web links

The Scientist
The Scientist is an online journal which requires an e mail address to register and is a source of articles and blogs on a wide range of topics. The summaries are fairly short and an undergraduate student should be able to understand most of them. Access to the full articles requires a subscription, either institutional or personal.
www.the-scientist.com

The National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) defines its role as follows: 'Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.'
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Cell and Molecular Biology Online
Cell and Molecular Biology Online provides access to a wide range of sites including some of those listed below.
www.cellbio.com/education.html

Access Excellence
Access Excellence is part of the National Health Museum in the US, and aims to enhance science education, particularly in relation to human health.
www.accessexcellence.org/index.html

There is also a biology textbook by M. J. Farabee.
www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobooktoc.html

The site also provides a link to a range of information on biotechnology, mostly involving discussions on matters on ethics/public policy.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/biotech.phpl

Primer on Molecular Genetics
The US Department of Energy maintains a Primer on Molecular Genetics, which is largely about the Human Genome Project.
www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer/toc.html

There is also a primer on microbial genomics:
http://microbialgenomics.energy.gov/primer/primer.shtml

And an interesting primer on genomics beyond the human genome project: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer2001/index.shtml

Medical Biochemistry
A nice general review of biochemistry from a medical perspective is available here:
http://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/

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Oxford University Press, Online Resource Centre, General web links.

General web links